Working with Logs

Logs contain valuable information about Neurons for ITSM and are invaluable aids to Ivanti for diagnosing customer issues. We recommend that you keep all logs from the current release and the most recent past major release.

Neurons for ITSM can automatically archive and delete the application logs on a regular basis. By default, this feature is deactivated.

When automatic archiving is activated, by default any records over 180 days old are eligible for archiving and the archive function runs once a week. To activate automatic archiving, see Archiving and Deleting Log Data from the Neurons for ITSM Databases.

Using Logs

You can create logs for various events.

Each service on each tenant can have a different logging level.

Logging Services

Neurons for ITSM includes a set of default logging services, but you can create additional logging services if needed. You must create your logging service before you can configure it for logging.

The following are the default logging services:

Logging Service	Description
Workflow Service	Logs information from the workflow engine.
Web Client	Logs information from the web client.
Unknown Service	Logs information about services that do not fit into any other category.
Script	Logs information about the script engine.
Performance	Logs performance information. See Measuring the Performance of Web Service Calls for complete information about using this service.
Message Queue Service	Logs information about the Neurons for ITSM message queue.
Integration Service	Logs information about the integration services.
IM	Logs information about Discovery.
Escalation Service	Logs information about the escalation service.
Email Service	Logs information about the email service.
DSM Integration Service	Logs information about Ivanti DSM.
CMDB Import Service	Logs information about the CMDB import service.
Central Config	Logs information about the central configuration.
App Server_Rule Trace	Logs information about how the application executes rules. For example, if there is an execution error with a rule, the application creates a log record with this service name.
App Server	Logs information about the Neurons for ITSM Application Server.

Logging Levels

Set each logging service to a level, depending on the amount of information that you need to collect. We recommend that you use the error or warning levels. If you include info and debug messages, this could impact application performance by logging too many messages. If you use these levels, only do so for a short time.

Following is a list of the logging levels:

Logging Level	Description
Off	Logs nothing.
Fatal	Very severe error events, usually unrecoverable, that may destroy the application.
Error	Events that can harm the application, but usually allow the application to continue running. This level also includes fatal messages.
Warning	Potentially harmful situations. This level also includes fatal and error messages.
Info	Informational messages that highlight the progress of the application at coarse-grained level. This level also includes fatal, error, and warning messages.
Debug	Fine-grained informational events that are most useful for debugging an application. This level also includes fatal, error, warning, and info messages.
All	Includes all messages.

Viewing Logs

1.Log into the Neurons for ITSM Application.

2.Click Logs to open the Logs workspace. The application displays a list of logs.

Logs Workspace

3.Open a log to view the log details.

Log Details